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Thousands of people rallied in Armenia, blocking government offices and roads and vowing to bring about a ‘velvet revolution,’ following the appointment of former President Serzh Sargsyan as the country’s new prime minister. Protesters in the capital Yerevan blocked access to several government agencies on Tuesday, including the General Prosecutor’s Office and the Foreign Ministry. […]
The Dutch parliament has voted to recognize as genocide the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. The move deepens a diplomatic row between the Netherlands and Turkey, which has seen envoys recalled. The motion, which was passed with the support of all major parties, comes after the Turkish government summoned the […]
The Turkish government called on the Dutch charge d‘affaires in Ankara on Saturday to express its anger at two bills proposed by the Christian Union party, the first of which would formally classify the events of 1915, when 1.5 million ethnic Armenians were killed by the Ottoman Empire, as a genocide. The second bill would […]
